Honorable mentions

Friday

Mar 22, 2013 at 3:15 AM

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) recently welcomed Madbury student John Parsons to the nation’s capital, where Parsons is participating in the 2013 U.S. Senate Youth Program. Parsons was one of two New Hampshire high school students selected as part of a group of more than 100 student delegates from across the country who are spending a week in Washington, D.C. experiencing the federal government in action.

Parsons attends Oyster River High School, where he is vice president of the Class of 2013. He also serves as the student representative to the school board and is an avid golfer.

During its 51 year history, USSYP has brought more than 5,000 students to the nation’s capital for an intensive weeklong study of the federal government. While in Washington, the student delegates attend meetings and briefings with Senators and congressional staff, the President, a Supreme Court Justice, cabinet officials, and other government leaders. The students also have the opportunity to tour many of the national monuments and historic sites in the nation’s capital.

MANCHESTER — Margaret O’Leary, a history major from Hampton, N.H., is one of 38 students inducted into Saint Anselm College’s TAU Chapter of the Delta Epsilon Sigma honor society, recognizing her for achieving academic excellence and providing noteworthy service to the college and surrounding community.

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Ellis Roakes, a computer information technology major from South Berwick, ME is currently studying abroad at the Champlain College Campus in Dublin, Ireland. At Champlain’s state-of-the-art Academic Center in Dublin, Roakes and other students have the opportunity to receive international perspective and prepare to be global professionals.

Roakes, a junior will be studying in Ireland for the remainder of the spring semester.

HAMDEN, Conn. — Jessica Cabral of East Kingston, N.H. was recently inducted into the Tau Rho Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the international honor society for nursing at Quinnipiac University. Cabral was one of 48 undergraduate students inducted this semester at a School of Nursing ceremony.

TILTON — Kelsey Brown, the daughter of Randy and Yvette Brown of Barrington, N.H. and a junior at Tilton School, has been named to the effort honor roll for the first semester at Tilton School.

To be included on the Scholarly effort honor roll, students must demonstrate Habits of Mind at a level that significantly exceeds basic standards in at least three courses and exceeds the basic standard in the remaining classes.

Brown was also a member of the varsity girls’ basketball team which finished the season at 24-3, capturing the New England Preparatory Athletic Council Class B Championship.

BOSTON, Mass. — Lee’s Faye Allison, a Stage/Production Management major at Emerson College, has been cast as Production Supervisor in Emerson Stage’s production of Newfest 2013: Catatonia. In a chaotic but cozy apartment, a young woman named Molly is deep in a quarter-life crisis. When she is unexpectedly visited by ghosts of the literary past, she is forced to reckon head-on with the sad state of her disintegrating marriage, her sexually manipulative affair, and her cosmically twisted spiral downward. Emerson’s production is by Theatre Studies major Dan Robert ‘13, winner of the Rod Parker Playwriting Fellowship, and directed by Joe Antoun. It will run March 21 through 24 in the Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre at Emerson College.